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Yahoo award for IIIT student

Ashish Mangalampalli

HYDERABAD: A research scholar from the IIIT-Hyderabad figures among the 21 exceptionally good Ph.D scholars selected for the Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) programme award given by Yahoo this year.

Ashish Mangalampalli, a second year Ph.D student from IIIT-H is in fact the only Indian and the only one from the non-US university to have won the prestigious award that supports high quality researchers working on important and challenging areas.

Funds for research

He would get $ 2,000 US unrestricted funds to support his research activities and is also invited to the KSC Graduate Student Summit planned for September 2009 in Sunnyvale, California.

“The news is yet to sink in,” said Ashish speaking to The Hindu. Pursuing his research on Data Mining and Fuzzy Logic from IIIT-H, he applied for the award in the Computational Advertising area. The selection was based on the write-up he had given for his research idea and his research orientation.

Apart from the monetary aspect, he values the opportunity that Yahoo will be providing to interact with Yahoo scientists and other top graduate students in an informal and supportive environment. Born and brought up in Jamshedpur, Ashish appreciates his advisor Vikram Pudi and his friends and the IIIT-H for creating the necessary academic environment to pursue serious research.

“We are excited to support talented students with KSC grants, and look forward to having them as part of our broad research alliance of outstanding students and faculty,” says Rajeev Rastogi, VP and Head of Yahoo Labs, Bangalore.

The KSC programme was launched this year and it enables students to work alongside Yahoo’s leading scientists to solve fundamental challenges and potentially contribute to the next big thing on the Web. Students were invited to submit a paper about their current or planned research that is relevant to the challenges and explains why their work would make an impact in the area.

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